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...technological powerhouse that still maintains its cultural identity. Industrializing nations are looking for ecological guidance from a place that has managed to become an economic giant while still embracing a conservationist ethos. Still others gravitate toward Japan because of its trendy comic books and, not least, for its generous checkbook. Even though Japan has in recent years scaled back its foreign-aid commitments, the nation is still the top bilateral donor to many developing countries, including Cambodia and Nepal...
...These measures have allowed Harvard to compete with public institutions by often providing more generous financial aid. “Harvard was the best offer I got, actually,” said Ashlee N. Adams ’12, “Even with the financial aid offers I got from state schools in Texas, Harvard was still cheaper...
...Only a few hundred meters from Harvard Yard, in her secluded office on Brattle Street, Director of Financial Aid Sally C. Donahue presides over the generous aid program. With the worst financial crisis in over 50 years, Donahue’s office has taken on new significance given the effects of the crisis on many Harvard families...
...program cannot be conceived without changing government regulations concerning financial aid. Luckily, such regulations aren’t quite so detrimental to Harvard—an institution that can afford to replace loans with grants. But they can be disastrous for institutions that lack Harvard’s generous endowment. Professor of Eonomics Terry B. Long, who has been working with H&R Block on the FAFSA Simplification Study, says, “High levels of debt are deterring people from going to college at all.” She adds that people in the United States find it difficult...
...ever come across." And Kennedy told his brother Bobby that he was struck by the sheer force of Eisenhower's personality. He admitted that Ike was "better than I had thought." On his first day in office, Kennedy made his gratitude official: "I am sure that your generous assistance has made this one of the most effective transitions in the history of our Republic." He would find himself calling on the former President both when he needed some public cover after the Bay of Pigs and when he needed private guidance for the Cuban missile crisis...